Lo-fi Beats Tour
The Game
Travel around the county playing weird little shows in weird little venues meeting weird people and having a chill time. You and your friends are in a lo-fi band, making chill beats to study to and touring around in a big van.
What I Like About This One:
I’m trying to find ways to get more ‘cozy’ role-playing games into my life. The vast majority of role-playing games have huge epic stories that span the world stopping the Apocalypse Dragon from raining hellfire down upon the unsuspecting people of Vale Innocen or whatever, but there’s seldom enough focus on the sorts of cool experiences people have all the time.
I played in some cover bands when I was a young man. Didn’t do a ton of touring but played a few shows, and it was pretty formative for me in a lot of ways.
There’s no way to actually fail in this game. You always do what you set out to do, but sometimes it comes with a setback or ruins your vibe. And I feel like that’s an ideal way to handle personal, emotional stake rather than worry about whether or not you can pick a lock to stop the Doom Minotaurs from flaying your friends.
What I’d Do Differently Next Time:
I’d probably expand on song seeds and songwriting mechanically. I kinda liked the idea of just having a little nugget of a song, a thing you can carry with you out of the game, but songwriting is such an integral part of the band experience that I think it deserves to be represented mechanically.